Beate Zschape

Beate Zschape (2 January 1975-) was a German fascist revolutionary and a member of National Socialist Underground. Along with Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Bohnhardt, she took part in the NSU murders of 2000-2007, in which ten Muslims were killed and one injured in neo-Nazi attacks.

Biography
Beate Zschape was born on 2 January 1975 in Jena, East Germany, the daughter of a Romanian dentist father and a German dentist mother who both studied in Bucharest. Her mother was unable to practice dentistry, however, due to allergies and had to work as an accountant instead. Beate's relationship with her mother was strained, changing her surname whenever her mother remarried; ultimately, she would live with her grandmother. Zschape joined the "Die Zecken" leftist punk group and beat up right-wing extremists, but she would become a member of the far right in 1991. She met Uwe Mundlos in Winzerla before the fall of the Berlin Wall, at which point he was already a failing student. Zschape had no concern for manners, was clever but lazy, and could draw better than she could write. She decided to join Mundlos and Uwe Bohnhardt in the National Socialust Underground right-wing extremist group, and from 9 September 2000 to 25 April 2007 they targeted immigrants in a series of murders and bombings. 10 people were killed and 1 wounded in the "NSU murders", and on 11 November 2011 she was forced to surrender a week after Uwe Bohnhardt and Uwe Mundlos killed themselves after a failed bank robbery.